Britain's Got Talent 2007

Thanks to YouTube, we got to share in some of the Britain’s Got Talent variety show. Some of the contributions were incredible. My favorites were: Paul Potts singing Nessum Dorma. He received an incredible reaction from the audience and judges; an incredible turnaround from the initial way he […]

Daily Report for July 11, 2007

Team Collaboration IntelliGantt for MindManager … TeamDirection released an add-on for Mindjet MindManager, linking it to IntelliGantt and thus SharePoint and Groove. Eg, for publishing topics and subtopics to a SharePoint task list. “What’s more, using our IntelliGantt sharing capabilities, its just a couple clicks to share a […]

8 Random Things about Michael

Marc’s tagged me with the latest blog thingee–8 random things about me. Here they are; 1. It’s very easy to have something in common with most people with kids. If I’m talking to someone with a 5 year old and a 3 year old, I’ll often say “I […]

Daily Report for July 10, 2007

Team Collaboration Upgrading from WSS v2 to v3 … Chan has details on what’s involved in upgrading from Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v2 to v3. As he says, there’s no silver bullet. Eg, “Note down the version of the WSS V2 server. With each service pack the version […]

Briefing with Rajesh Setty on iPolipo, July 10

Earlier today I had a neat discussion with Rajesh Setty, one of the co-founders of iPolipo, an online meeting scheduling service. Finding better ways to schedule meetings outside of email is a big professional interest of mine (eg, see the Messaging News (May/June 2007) cover story on calendaring), […]

Daily Report for July 9, 2007

Team Collaboration Employees Want More Virtual Meetings … UK employees would be more than happy to shift some of their meetings to virtual ones, thus eliminating some travel from their schedules. “In fact, though employees say they would readily adopt greener remote working practices, they are being stopped […]

Mark Bennett on IBM vs. Microsoft

On Thursday I met with Mark Bennett, the IT Manager for the New Zealand offices of a global organization. What’s interesting about Mark is that he comes from a very strong technical background in Microsoft and Citrix, and when he joined the Firm, he discovered a Notes shop […]